Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.

  

  Carl Zeiss
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Stadium

• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Many
  • Did
  • Follower

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Family
  • She
  • Job

• The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Broken
  • New
  • Year

• We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Move
  • Moved

• People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Important
  • Single
  • Wise

• Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Country

• I always know what time it is.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Time

• Bridal wear has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Passion

• God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Religious

• I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Good

• Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Character
  • Freedom

• I dream of democratizing the fashion industry by giving everyone access to feeling their most beautiful and powerful every day and, at the same time, using technology to modernize how we get dressed.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Dream

• Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Learning
  • Amazing
  • Journey

• Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Why
  • History

• When I do something wrong, members will think it's because I'm the maknae and things will be ok.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Thinking
  • Members

• This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Learning
  • Changing
  • Skills